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Newspaper
Grafton Sentinel
Location
Grafton, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
May 23, 1949
Page
5
A small Northern Ontario town celebrates a dog that reportedly caught and killed 19 skunks in a single night. The story casts the hero as a possible movie star, echoing the name Lassie in lively local chatter.
The item mentions a Nigerian context with an irate senator and a Cornell ornithologist winning a $1,000 prize for locating the bristle-thighed curlew nest. It also references Belmont Park racing a horse named Losers Weepers, and a Berlin daily business scene amid a strike. Street cars and buses carried many passengers despite the labor unrest.
Bennett Cerf mocks Potash and Perlmutter as quarrels erupt over a motion picture deal. Potash fumes at an expensive star, while Perl mutter defends the hire as a Kipling vampire, prompting a sharp clash over seven hundred dollars per week.
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